NCS OPEN HOUSE: Monday, July 11th 7pm Eastern Open to non-members and current NCS members alike! Register in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-CorjMtGdE0kVe24LWOaXmHEmQK0Bjm Open to both current NCS members and those interested in the NCS, we will share news, do a drawing game together, hear from some of our regional chapters, and have a chance to […]
There were a few Sunday Funnies today I just don’t “get.”B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 10, 2022 © John Hart Studios Six Chix by Maritsa Patrinos for July 10, 1922 Six Chix © KFS; comic © MPatrinos Candorville by Darrin Bell for July 10, 2022 © Darrin Bell *Apologies to and in memory of Bill Bickel.
In January of 1935 the first DC comic book was released – New Fun #1. It featured the first female title character of DC Comics – Sandra of the Secret Service. The one-page more or less monthly comic strip was created by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and Charles Flanders. Others continued the series until 1938, after which […]
I’m not much in the mood to deal with today. Instead, here’s a look at the Sunday funnies from July 9, 1972.Though I’ll add a bit of politics, since the Democrats were holding their convention. We didn’t know at the time how many of those bumps and bruises were the handiwork of Little Donny Segretti, […]
Two longtime Warren County residents and former executives of The Indianola Record-Herald and Indianola Tribune are buying the newspaper from Gannett Co. Inc. and plan to continue publishing a weekly print edition. The buyers are Amy Duncan, a former editor and publisher, and her husband, Mark Davitt, a former managing editor. The couple, who live […]
Scrolling through the sea of posts, pictures, and memes online can make conservatives feel like they’re outcasts. Endless screeds claiming anyone to the right of Mao is a bigoted and hateful person make up most of Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. But a growing cadre of conservative creatives is trying to make its mark online and […]
Here’s a bit of bad news from Jimmy Margulies (KFS), which doesn’t fit my politics, because I’m far from ready to fly the white flag over this country, but it does fit my current mood, which is decidedly Eeyorean.It seems Joe Biden took a few minutes to intervene with Russia on behalf of Brittney Griner, […]
Argentinian cartoonist Liniers’s internationally syndicated daily comic is collected for the first time in English in Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere (Fantagraphics, Aug.). Being Fantagraphics that book is now scheduled for September. With the cartoonist’s first book for the English speaking world coming soon Publishers Weekly talks with Macanudo comic strip creator Liniers. I loved […]
All about The National Cartoonists Society in their new pamphlet.
Cartoonist and comics historian Bob Harvey has passed away. Robert Charles (Bob) Harvey (a.k.a. R. C. Harvey) June 22, 1937 – July 7, 2022 Bob’s friends Tom Tanquary and Carolyn Weller have informed the comics world that R.C. Harvey has passed away due to complications following a fall.From Bob’s daughter Julia:Last week Dad fell and […]
I’m not in the mood for politics today, but Kevin Siers’ comment on the resignation of Boris Johnson is simply too good to delay.It’s one of those things where, once you see it, the connecting concepts are obvious, but combining Britain’s lion with Bert Lahr’s lion must have struck Siers like a thunderbolt.As a writer, […]
Filmmaker Tom Tanquary is informing us of the sad news that cartoonist and comics historian R. C. Harvey has passed away. There will be more as details emerge.
On July 7, 1997 Baby Blues writer Jerry Scott and editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman introduced 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan to newspaper readers with the Zits comic strip.The comic strip began with a decent client list and has grown considerably since. Zits appears in more than 1,600 newspapers worldwide in 45 countries and is translated into 15 […]
Editorial cartoonist Graeme MacKay celebrates his 25th anniversary with The Hamilton Spectator. … this week marks the 25 year milestone since officially beginning my role on July 7, 1997, as staff editorial cartoonist at The Hamilton Spectator. Previous to then my illustrations regularly appeared on a freelance basis in this paper as well as several […]
In order to start a day of mythbusting on an apolitical note, here’s a cartoon Rich Powell shared on Facebook the other day, though I note by the date that he drew it some time ago.It’s about the nursery rhyme about little piggies, used, as demonstrated in this 1857 painting by Lilly Martin-Spencer, to make […]